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The Dying Crapshooter's Blues
David Fulmer
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9780151011759 Hardcover
0151011753
$23.00
320pages
Available
Trim Size:
6 x 9
Copyright Year:
2006
Territory:
World
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Synopsis |
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On a cold December night in 1920s Atlanta, a drunken white cop shoots a black gambler in one of the worst parts of town, and a cache of jewels goes missing from a mansion in one of the best. Joe Rose—rambler, gambler, and professional thief—has just hit the city. He soon finds himself caught in a three-sided puzzle that involves a black-hearted police officer called “the Captain,” the pimp and crapshooter Little Jesse Williams, and a wicked beauty named Pearl Spencer. Behind it all is Atlanta, the city once nothing but dust and ashes, now the richest, busiest metropolis in the South, mixing sin with success and vibrating with mayhem and music.
In his acclaimed Storyville series, David Fulmer brought the jazz-soaked streets of New Orleans to life. Now he brings us another absorbing mystery in a new setting raucous with music and rich with history.
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Praise |
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"Fulmer paints the sprawling vitality of 1920s Atlanta with broad strokes. [A] vital effort from Shamus-winner Fulmer."
Publishers Weekly,
"A raffish and deceptively simple novel. Distinguished by a level of detail that makes a vanished world live again."
Washington Post Book World,
"[Fulmer] spins an intriguing tale of police corruption, covetousness, conspiracy and crime."
The Tennessean,
"Fulmer weaves the musical threads as an indispensable element of the narrative as a whole, and if Blind Willie McTell is a secondary character here (to Joe Rose), Fulmer presents us with a fictional McTell that comes across as a real person. If you want a good mystery, read and love jazz and blues, you won't go wrong with David Fulmer, especially this excellent novel." -- The Jazz and Blues Report
Jazz and Blues Report,
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Biography |
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DAVID FULMER’s first novel, Chasing the Devil’s Tail, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Mystery/Thriller Book Prize and the winner of the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel. He lives in Atlanta.
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General Subjects |
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Fiction- Mystery & Detective/General
Fiction- Suspense
Fiction- Historical
Fiction- General
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Audio/UK: Harcourt
Serial/Performance/Translation: Susan Golomb Literary Agency
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Rights Information |
Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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